Clinique psycho-criminologique des radicalités violentes

Abstract

ObjectivesThe aim of this article is to show how a psychoanalytical perspective can be enriched by a psychocriminological reading, when studying the trajectories of subjects who commit ideological acts, thereby helping to restore their complexity and multidimensionality. MethodBased on a clinical interview with Lenny, whom we met in the context of a research project, we will attempt, using a double clinical and psychocriminological reading, to analyze what the radical ideological commitment of the subjective economy of a perpetrator signifies, and in what way the modalities of emergence and the modus operandi of radical violence testify to the subject's search for a solution. ResultsThe case of Lenny allows us, on the one hand, to note how the affects of humiliation and hatred appear as levers of radical violent dynamics, and on the other hand, to understand the articulation of the mode of radical commitment and the modus operandi of the ideological act. DiscussionWe discuss how the clinical and psychocriminological stakes, as well as the dynamics of ideological adherence and its violent enactments, are discovered at the crossroads of a triple tension articulating the relationships between internal and external reality. ConclusionIn order to restore the dynamics and the complexity of such an object of study, we discuss the necessity to think of new clinical and research methods supported by a complementarist and interdisciplinary approach.